My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological thing, like schizophrenia. We all think we know things, but we don't know a damn thing. Whether God exists, why we're here... Nobody really knows any of it.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.